So, in working on a story, I've seen the need to educate myself somewhat in Engineering. I am thinking of a super metal that I will call Xsteel and is roughly ten times stronger than high carbon steel, and about 1/10th the weight. There will also be repulsors that use electricity to produce thrust and using about 40Kw will generate around 60 hp in draw bar thrust.

I've flown several light planes that had around 100 Hp +or- but I have no idea what thrust they produce, and it is probably not linear when compared to speed.

Today Puddingtang helped me spot a spelling error I missed. It was one of those silly things where the auto-correct and spellchecker took one of my scrambled words and replaced with one that was spelled right, but it still wasn't the right one.

It was suggested I turn off that function. However, I'm dyslexic and without it, ... well, it's not pretty!

I received this reply. "Dyslexics tend to be both clever and creative."

I'm kinda in the same boat as Elrod. As we have asked before and many times it seems we beg for them its the feedback that our readers provide us that keeps us motivated. Without them, good or bad we have no real inclination of whether our stories are having the impact that we are striving for.

If you were to look at mine from the last story about have of the comments are mine in response.

I like the kudo's but they don't provide me or others with how the story is impacting on you the reader.

It was a rare privilege indeed to have been present at this. Both Pen and I felt the love and respect the villagers poured out during this short but very poignant ceremony.

Thought I would ask for some advice....

An author has approached me to publish her stories via Kindle.

I was just looking around on the site tonight and found, "The Fairy King", by Wanda Cunningham. Hoping to find more work by her I went to her page and it seems like the last work from her was around 2009. Then I went to the Memorial Page and she is not there. Sigh.

I do wish that she would publish more of her work here. The Fairy King was so good. Wanda, if you are out there ...

Gwendolyn

Dear John is now live on the Kindle marketplace in English.

USA:

This is a warning notice concerning a story I have up on the site currently.

That story is Dear John.

To whom it may concern, book 2 of Room in Hell is going up for sale tomorrow on Kindle; if you like the series, now is the time to strike!

This caught my eye on the BBC news website: a bridal shop in Japan has discovered a demand for bridal photo shoots - for men. I thought, hey, that looks like the germ of a good story, should anyone want it!

Here's the link:

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27162371

:-)

Well, it looks like the anniversary of joining the site passed me by without me noticing. I've now been a member for three years and six days and let me just say I'm glad I did wind up joining the site as is often the first place I visit when I first sit down at my computer. The community is welcome and inviting and the atmosphere is unparalleled. I'd just like to add Kudos to Erin and crew for their continued work in keeping the site up and running and for maintaining said atmosphere! :D

...Something Extraordinary.

Stay Tuned :)

It may have been a long time coming but finally I'll be releasing the next chapter of Acidalia. Hopefully this is exciting news, possibly no one will care :). Either way it should be out sometime next weekish. It's my hope after that to get another out approximately every other month.

Good day all,

First, I'm going to mention a woman called Saffire.

She has (had?) a group of other women with her; they call(ed) themselves "The Uppity Blues Women".

Hello everyone! My 'End of the World: The Last Easter' is finally up! I apologize for the troubles last night, but it was one of those perfect storms of site problems and my trying to post at the same time. Now, everything is fine!

As I said, this is the last part of the 'End of the World' series. I was rather satisfied how the endings in both universes pulled together even if other parts 'tasked' me. If you're writer you know what I mean!

Hello! I just tried to post the last chapter of my End of the World series, but it comes up page not found after I'd saved it. Another problem is that I have a message alert, but I can't access the message.

Hmmm... help?
Hugs
Grover

So the petition to Amazon for them to create a transgender fiction genre ran up to 223 signatures and then it just stalled. Considering the amount of hits we get on this site, I think we can hit the goal of 1000 signatures in a day if people just took a few minutes out of their busy schedules to sign.

I have been sitting on this story for a while now. originally written as a Tragedy,I changed the ending several times before I got it the way I wanted it. It is long I admit, but I hope those who read it all the way through enjoy it. I figured Easter weekend was a good time for a love story and I hope that is what everyone who reads it sees.

Yay for us. We already hit 100 signatures on the petition and I'm getting read to make the next move (media involvement). I really think this is important. It is about equality, but also about recognition that transgender literature and people are not all about sex. I am keeping the petition open for a week as I figure things out this Easter weekend. I would love for people to look at the intended letter going to Amazon and give some pointers or suggestions to make it better.

Keep signing and thanks.

Here's the link. I can't do graphics or I'd have confetti falling.

So yesterday I started my petition to Amazon. I really should have done it much sooner because it is something that frustrates me to no end. Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords etc. have no dedicated transgender fiction genre and expect us to lump our work either under gay and lesbian or erotica. I don't think either is fair or right. But Amazon isn't going to do something solely for me, so I got organized.

How does this rating system work? I don't want to short change any of the authors.

As I'm away next week i'll try to do an update here at the weekend to tide you over!

Whats happened to Duty Calls, was coming out regularly then stopped, anyone know what's happening to it?

This site is amazing.

There are so many caring people.

There are so many talented people.

There are so many generous, giving people.